1、专业英语八级（听力）练习试卷 3及答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lectur
2、e. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 Some Problems Facing Learners of English Although many English learners have got high scores in an Engl
3、ish test such as IELTS or TOEFL, they still face some problems concerning its learning. Here wed like to talk about some of the problems and try to come up with suggestions on how to overcome them. . Psychological Problems 1. the 1st reason: fear of【 1】 the solution: not to look too far ahead concen
4、trate on increasing knowledge and developing ability 2. the 2nd reason: separation from the family and【 2】 the solution: enjoy【 3】 time heals nostalgia . Cultural Problems 1. practical problems 【 4】 money, food, weather 2. problems difficult to define the reason: the British way of life (【 5】 , habi
5、ts and traditions) the solution: be open-minded and【 6】 . Linguistic Problems 1. problems regarding【 7】 1) difficulties in understanding English-speaking people 3 reasons: fast speed of speech a variety of accents different styles of speech 2) ways of overcoming the difficulties attend【 8】 use a lan
6、guage laboratory listen to English programs meet and speak with native speakers of English 2. problems regarding speaking 1) difficulties: knowing what to say but not knowing how to say it in English 2) solutions: 【 9】 the language think in English instead of translating practice speaking as much as
7、 possible imitate the educated peoples【 10】 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an intervi
8、ew. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 The interviewer used to care about all the following things EXCEPT （ A） doing well in some sports. （ B） having good body-image looking. （ C） wearing appropriat
9、e clothes. （ D） being popular with other kids. 12 Which of the following is NOT an example of the relationships gMs attach importance to? （ A） Their relationships with classmates. （ B） Their relationships with parents. （ C） Their relationships with teachers. （ D） Their relationships with boys. 13 Wh
10、en girls have limitations in face of pressure, they might （ A） stop trying hard. （ B） suffer from indignation. （ C） end up crying out. （ D） accept the fact eahnlv. 14 Parents should be aware of the hidden stress of their daughters when （ A） the girls are irritable sometimes. （ B） the girls are exhau
11、sted someday. （ C） the girls say they hate school. （ D） the girls lie and play truant. 15 One way for the girls to thrive in the age of pressure is to （ A） develop intangible ideas. （ B） set touchable goals. （ C） forget about their stress. （ D） talk with their parents. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Direc
12、tions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What did the government intend to do in the beginning? （ A） To greatly restrict public smoking
13、. （ B） To ban smoking in all public places. （ C） To supervise smoking in some bars. （ D） To ban public smoking in England. 17 The staff who work in public places would favor the ban because （ A） they dont have to inhale foul air. （ B） they dont have to serve smokers. （ C） they will get more tips fio
14、m non-smokers. （ D） there will be a rise on their salaries. 18 Present Kibaki has called for patience of the investigation of the scandals because （ A） he didnt want to approve the resignation of Education Minister. （ B） the resigned officials wanted the opportunity to prove their innocence. （ C） he
15、 thinks conuption hasnt reached high levels of the government. （ D） John Githongo gave testimony to visiting Kenya members of Parlianlent. 19 President Mohammad Abbas has been given the authority to bypass parliament because （ A） Fatah Party intended to irritate the militant group Hamas. （ B） Fatah
16、Party wanted to strengthen the legislative power. （ C） Fatah Party was defeated in the Palestinian election. （ D） Fatah Party suffered a stunning defeat in the constitutional court. 20 The discovery of the tomb will enable archeologists to know about the life of （ A） commons. （ B） farmers. （ C） aris
17、tocrats. （ D） workers. 专业英语八级（听力）练习试卷 3答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task
18、 after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 【听力原文】 Some Problems Facing Learners of English Even though some EFL learners ach
19、ieve high score in a certain standard English test such as IELTS or TOELF, they still have some problems concerning the learning of English. Today Id like to talk about some of the problems that students face when they follow a course of study through the medium of English if English is not their mo
20、ther tongue. The purpose is to show that were aware of students problems, and that by analyzing them perhaps itll be possible to suggest how some of them may be overcome. The problems can be divided into three broad categories: psychological, cultural and linguistic. (1) Some of the common psycholog
21、ical problems really involve fear of the unknown: for example, whether ones academic studies will be too difficult, whether one will fail the exams, and so on. All students share these apprehensions. Its probably best for a student not to look too far ahead but to concentrate day-by-day on increasin
22、g his knowledge and developing his ability. (2) The overseas student in Britain may also suffer from separation from his family and possible homesickness ; (3) enjoyment of his activities in Britain and the passage of time are the only real help here. Looking now at the cultural problems, (4) we can
23、 see that some of them are of a very practical nature, for example, arranging satisfactory accommodation, getting used to British money (or the lack of it), British food and weather. Some of the cultural difficulties are less easy to define : (5) they are bound up with the whole range of alien custo
24、ms, habits and traditions in other words, the British way of life. Such difficulties include: settling into a strange environment and a new academic routine; learning a new set of social habits, ranging from the times of meals to the meanings of gestures; expressing appropriate greetings; understand
25、ing a different kind of humor; and learning how to make friends. (6) Being open-minded and adaptable is the best approach to some of the difficulties listed here. The largest category is probably linguistic. Lets took at this in some details. (7) Most students have learnt English at school, but they
26、 have had little everyday opportunity to practice using English. When foreign learners first have the opportunity to speak to an English-speaking person they may have a shock: they often have great difficulty in understanding! There are a number of reasons for this. Ill just mention three of them. F
27、irstly, it seems to students that English people speak very quickly. Secondly, they speak with a variety of accents. Thirdly, diffferent styles of speech are used in different situations, for example, everyday spoken English, which is colloquial and idiomatic, is different from the English used for
28、academic purposes. Dont forget, by the way, that if students have difficulty in understanding English-speaking people, these people may also have difficulty in understanding the students! What can a student do then to overcome these difficulties? (8) Well, obvionsly, he can benefit from attending En
29、glish classes and if a language laboratory is available use it as much as possible. He should also listen to programmes in English on the radio and TV. Perhaps the most important of all, he should take every available opportunity to meet and speak with native English-speaking people. He should be aw
30、are, however, that English people are, by temperament, often reserved and may be unwilling to start a conversation. Nevertheless, if he has the courage to take the initiative, however difficult:it may be, most English people will respond. He will need patience and perseverance. (7) In addition to th
31、ese problems regarding listening and understanding, the student probably has difficulty in speaking English fluently. He has the ideas, he knows what to say but he doesnt know how to say it in English. The advice here will seem difficult to follow but its necessary. (9) Firstly, he must simplify his
32、 language so that he can express himself reasonably dearly; for example, short sentences will be better than long ones. Secondly, he must try to think in English, not translate from his mother tongue. Thatll only begin to take place when his use of English becomes automatic; using a language laborat
33、ory and listening to as much English as possible will help. In general, he should practice speaking as much as possible.(10) He should also notice the kind of English, and its structure, that educated people use, and try to imitate it. The problem with learning English as a foreign language is that
34、all English learners want to speak English well; however, most learners dont want to spend time on learning English on their own. Learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you dont start doing things, you will achieve nothing. The fact is, if you want to learn to s
35、peak English well, you must change your life. Thank you for your attention. 【知识模块】 听力 1 【正确答案】 the unknown 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 possible homesickness/possible nostalgia 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 the activities 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 accommodation 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 alien customs/foreign customs 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案
36、】 adaptable 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 listening and understanding 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 English classes 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 simplify 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 use of English 【知识模块】 听力 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions th
37、at follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 10 【听力原文】 M: A new book explains why girls feel the pressure more than boys , it is called Stressed out Girls H
38、elping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure, the author is psychologist Roni Cohen Sandier. Roni, good morning. Good to see you. W: Thank you! M: I usually hate to start by saying let me play the devils advocate to keep it let me play it for a second. (1) When I was a kid, I thought it needed to be go
39、od in soccer, in baseball, and to look good, and wear the right clothes, and be popular, and do well academically, so why is it harder for girls than boys? W: Well, its true, Matt, that boys academically want to succeed just as much as girls, but there are two issues. One is that girls face such mor
40、e intense social pressures during middle school and high school. You know, they want to be seen as looking good, and especially they have issues about body-image appearance that boys dont have. For example, girls that I spoke to, for this book, told me about waking up early in the morning, sometimes
41、 an hour or more, to blow dry their hair, to put make-up on, to make sure that their make-up wasnt too much or too little, and especially to pick out their out-fits because they know that what they wear will say something very important about them. M: Youve surveyed, I think, 3,000 girls for this bo
42、ok, and you talk about the fact that girls tend to view they are or experience their relationships in a different way than boys do, explain that. W: Well, they care so much about their relationships, and how their relationships are going well. (2) Were talking friendships here, every kind of relatio
43、nship, urn, their relationship with teachers, their relationship with parents, their relationships with their peers. And in fact, unless they feel like their relatMlships are going well, Matt, they cant feel successful. Boys are much more likely to slough it off, but for girls they go through their
44、school day much differently, thinking about how their relationships are going. M: This needs to feel extraordinary or to be extraordinary in so many different areas of their lives. More extraordinary than boys apparently they feel they have to be, how does that impact their personalities with that,
45、the weight on their shoulder? W: Well, they think that they have to be great in everything, and of course, they have limitations. And when they have limitations, they feel like they cant, they cant please people. They feel like they are just not good enough, (3) that their best isnt good enough, and
46、 they end up feeling terrible about themselves, and sometimes they give up, they start feeling like theyre hopeless and not trying this hard. M: (4) Lets talk about some things that parents can do to look for signs of hidden stress, not obvious stress. W: Right, the girls tend to keep their stress i
47、n, because they want to please people. So, you know, ewry girl, for example, is going to be irritable and tired sometimes, but the key is if it becomes a pattern or she suddenly starts saying she hates school or complains about certain teachers, parents should really think about the fact that maybe
48、something stressful is going on. M: Help create a sensible schedule, big peppy, that I think so many kids are over-scheduled, you got to create downtime. W: Absolutely, and parents need to be the voice of reason here, I suggest no more than once work per season, that they make sure that their daught
49、ers have at least one free period during the school day, and especially they have a couple of days after school. They just rest and relax, relax and rest, and have downtime. M: All right. (5) So, and also help develop tangible goals, and I would imagine that wouldnt he: get straight as, or youve got to get 1,600 on your SATs, what are tangible goals? W: Tangible goals are: do your homework at night before you go to bed instead of trying to do it in the morning before a class or read over you
